MatterOfStats 2024 : Team Dashboard for Round 6

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The latest Rankings on Dashboard Metrics graphic appears below, and reveals that team rankings on the following metrics are most highly correlated with ladder position (noting that I order the ladder based on Competition Points per Game and then Percentage, which differs from what you’ll see on the AFL and other sites).

  • The MoS Win Production Function (+0.93)

  • Own Points per Game (+0.93)

  • Own Scoring Shots per Game (+0.88)

  • Own Goals per Game (+0.88)

  • Percent of Quarters Won (+0.86)

  • Q3 Performances (+0.80)

Least highly correlated are:

  • Opponent Scoring Shot Conversion (+0.28)

  • Q2 performances (+0.40)

  • Opponents’ Scoring Shots per Game (+0.43)

  • Own Scoring Shot Conversion (+0.48)

Overall, the Brisbane Lions’ rankings look least congruent with their ladder position. North Melbourne’s statistics are pretty wild: 14th to 18th on every metric except Own Scoring Shot Conversion where they’re 1st.

And, here is the larger Team Dashboard, which reveals that:

  • GWS has won 17 quarters this season, and Port Adelaide, Sydney, and Geelong 16

  • North Melbourne has won only three quarters this season

  • Geelong has only generated as many scoring shots as their opponents have in Q4s. They’ve won only 42% of them and have a percentage of just 113.

  • Sydney and Port Adelaide have generated fewer scoring shots than their opponents have in Q2s.

  • GWS has generated fewer scoring shots than their opponents have in Q4s.

  • Carlton has only generated as many scoring shots as their opponents have in Q1s.

  • Melbourne has only generated as many scoring shots as their opponents have in Q1s, and fewer in Q3s.

  • Brisbane Lions has scored 60% of their points in 1st halfs and conceded 61% in 2nd halfs

  • Gold Coast has conceded 63% in 2nd halfs

  • St Kilda has scored 61% in 2nd halfs

  • Carlton’s opponents have converted at almost 75% in Q1s

  • North Melbourne has converted at almost 75% in Q1s